Miriam Sorrell

This book connects the author with her own rich roots, and takes plant-based cooking to a new level, bringing the exotic flavours of the Middle East and Southern Mediterranean within easy reach of the home cook, and showing once again the innovative genius of Sorrell as she redesigns vegan cuisine.

For the first time ever — proper vegan Taramasalata; Halloumi, Lime Infused Feta, Shaskshuka with genius plantbased Eggs, Baked Fasolia Pie, Middle Eastern Stuffed Cabbage Rolls, Briam-Imam Bayildi, Spanakopita Tart, Crispy Fried Calamari, Aubergine Maqluba, Coffee Crème Caramel, Kalo Prama, and Galaktoboureko. These are just some of the delights to be found within — and all entirely plant-based!

Lavish full-page photos accompany each recipe, each one more appetizing than the last, marking this hotly anticipated book as a historical moment in vegan gastronomy.

Born in London, Miriam Sorrell grew up on the small Mediterranean island of Malta. Her Greek Cypriot father owned restaurants in London, whilst her mother’s background is a rich mixture of Greek, Italian and Maltese.

Since starting her Mouthwatering Vegan blog in 2010, followed by her Mouthwatering Vegan cookbook in 2013, Miriam has had a profound effect on the evolution of vegan cuisine, with her innovative recipes being used in restaurants and cafes worldwide.

Miriam is a tireless campaigner for the rights of animals worldwide, and sees her work as an integral part in helping to reduce their suffering by extending further the wonderful range of foods we can eat that contain no animal ingredients.

Blue Zones Solution

Dan Buettner

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Blue Zones, Dan Buettner for the first time lays out a proven plan to maximize your health based on the practices of the world’s healthiest people. With his Blue Zones City Makeovers now dramatically impacting the health of more than 5 million Americans, this is a book for anyone who
wants to create their own personal Blue Zone.

In this groundbreaking book, Dan Buettner reveals how to transform your health using smart eating and lifestyle habits gleaned from new research on the diets, eating habits, and lifestyle practices of the communities he’s identified as “Blue Zones” — those places with the world’s longest-lived, and thus healthiest, people. (Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula; Ikaria, Greece; and Loma Linda, California).

With the audacious belief that the life styles of the world’s Blue Zones could be adapted and replicated in towns across North America, Buettner launched the largest preventive healthcare project in the United States, The Blue Zones City Makeovers, which has impacted the health of millions of Americans since 2009. Now, in The Blue Zones Solution, readers can be inspired by the specific stories of the people, foods, and routines of our healthy elders; understand the role community, family, and naturally healthy habits can play to improve our diet and health; and learn the exact foods--including the 50 superfoods of longevity and dozens of recipes adapted for Western tastes and markets--that offer delicious ways to eat your way to optimum health.

Throughout the book are lifestyle recommendations, checklists, and stories to help you create your own personal Blue Zones solution. Readers will learn and apply the 80/20 rule; the plant slant diet; social aspects of eating that lead to weight loss and great health naturally; cultivating your “tribe” of friends and family and your greater purpose as part of your daily routine.

Filled with moving personal stories, delicious recipes, checklists, and useful tips that will transform any home into a miniature blue zone, The Blue Zones Solution is the ultimate blueprint for a healthy, happy life.

DAN BUETTNER is the founder of Blue Zones, an organization that helps Americans live longer, healthier lives. His groundbreaking work on longevity led to his 2005 National Geographic cover story “Secrets of Living Longer” and two national bestsellers, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who’ve Lived the Longest and Thrive. He lives in Minneapolis, MN. He can be found on facebook and twitter, and through his website bluezones.com.

Life From Scratch

Sasha Martin

It was a culinary journey like no other: Over the course of 195 weeks, food writer and blogger Sasha Martin set out to cook— and eat — a meal from every country in the world.

As cooking unlocked the memories of her rough-and-tumble childhood and the loss and heartbreak that came with it, Martin became more determined than ever to find peace and elevate her life through the prism of food and world cultures. From the tiny, makeshift kitchen of her eccentric, creative mother to a string of foster homes to the house from which she launches her own cooking adventure, Martin’s heartfelt, brutally honest memoir reveals the power of cooking to bond, to empower, and to heal — and celebrates the simple truth that happiness is created from within.

Sasha Martin is an award-winning writer, blogger, wife and mother who spent almost four years cooking her way around the world. Her work has been featured on NPR (Travel with Rick Steves), Whole Living, Bon Appetit, The Smithsonian, The Huffington Post, and CNNgo. Her recipes have been recognized by the likes of Amanda Hesser and FOOD 52, and her website, Global Table Adventure, is a go-to hub for foodies around the world.

Smoked

Jeremy Schmid

Smoking food is an age-old method of preserving fresh ingredients for future life as well as adding essential flavour. Many foods can be smoked including fish and meat, but also ususual ingredients such as dairy products and nuts.

Smoking units are now available so that the home cook can prepare smoked dishes for themselves using a home-made unit or one that fits on the stove top or in the barbecue.

Author Jeremy Schmid describes the difference between hot and cold smoking, as well as explaining the effects of different species of wood used, and talks the reader through the process in clear step-by-step photographs.

He worked for several years as a chef before going on to study charcuterie at the prestigious Culinary Institute of America. Since then he has developed his own style working as a professional chef. He takes pride in serving delicious cured smoked meats, seafood, salads and desserts for catered functions and casual brunches on site at his restaurant.

Bugs In Close-Up

Colin Hutton

The extreme close-ups of insects, spiders and other invertebrates illustrate a hidden fauna of alien-looking critters. Many people see these creatures as creepy and revolting if they even notice them at all, but viewing these tiny animals through a macro lens presents them in an entirely new light. How many people have actually seen the ‘face’ of a tiny jumping spider, or the beautiful compound eyes of a female horsefly?

This remarkable book will help people to appreciate the beauty of nature’s smaller creatures. The macro photography brings to life the world of bugs, which is all around us yet too diminutive to be observed by the human eye.

Coverage of families includes the likes of butterflies, beetles and bees, right through to giant stick insects and mantids which look like they are straight from a science fiction film. It covers everything from warning patterns and camouflage to mimicry and many other unbelievable adaptations. The incredible photography is supported by informative extended captions detailing the subjects and in some cases explaining how the images were taken.

Bugs in Close-up is an essential read for insect enthusiasts and fans of creepy-crawlies everywhere, as well as for photographers who will marvel at the skills and techniques used when taking the close-up macro images.
Author and photographer Colin Hutton has been taking macro images of invertebrates for many years, in his home country the USA as well as in other locations around the world. When not out in the field and behind the lens himself, he runs courses explaining how to get the best results from macro photography.

Retro London

Lucinda Gosling

Take a walk back in time with this rich collection of amazingly evocative photographs of one of the great cities in the world.

From busy thoroughfares like Oxford Street to cramped and colourful Brick Lane, all manner of streetlife is on display — shoppers, tramps, street hawkers, children playing, bobbies, markets — the whole panoply of London life as it was.

Retro London uses the extraordinary archive of the Mary Evans Photo Library to depict the devlopment of the city and the life of its people from the start of the 20th Century to the Swinging Sixties.

With chapters on Transport, London at war, social events, London by night, Sport and recreation and many more,
it is beautifully presented in a padded hardcover format with over 300 unique images.

Lucinda Gosling is a historian and Chief archivist for the Mary Evans Picture Library. She studied history at the University of Liverpool and has contributed articles on illustration, royal history and the First World War to various publications and is author of Brushes and Bayonets, a survey of Great War cartoons from the Illustrated London News archive.

The London Book of Lists

Tim Hepson & Larry Porges

There are older and larger cities than London. Other cities with sublime sights and monuments, superb food and
nightlife. But there are no cities that come close to London’s medley of art, culture, history, tradition, excitement,
cosmopolitan élan, contemporary flair — and flair for quirkiness.

The London Book of Lists is an eclectic and hugely entertaining illustrated compendium of more than 120 lists of London life, culture, and history, from its ancient Roman origins to the present day.

Organised with a minimum of organisation, the lists in this fun and easy-to-dip into book comprise and are annotated by quotes; sidebars containing compelling facts and figures; snippets from diaries and other first-hand sources, old National Geographic magazine excerpts; and much more.

• The useful — The best breakfasts, movie locations you can visit, best views from bars and restaurants.
• The fascinating — Remaining visible damage from WWII, ghost tube stations, great riots and disturbances.
• The obscure — Antiquated laws, infamous murders and their locations, favourite London ghosts.

Whether a native Londoner or a tourist, there is sure to be a list to inform, inspire, or entertain.

Tim Jepson was born near the River Thames and grew up on the fringes of London, close to Amersham. He has written six other books for National Geographic and is a guide and expert for National Geographic Expeditions. His travel articles have appeared in the Daily Telegraph, Vogue, Conde Nast Traveller, and other publications.

Larry Porges has been a book editor at the National Geographic Society for more than a decade and wrote the
updated edition of the National Geographic Traveler: London guidebook.

The Greatest Fights That Never Were

Matthew Bazell

Sports fans fondly recall the greatest boxing matches of all time but an obsessive conversation among fight fans will also focus on those bouts that ‘should have been’, but for a variety of reasons never happened.

In The Greatest Fights That Never Were, the author talks about the unique culture of professional boxing where
corruption, fear, racism, and even friendship, prevented many great fights from ever happening. The book looks at the lost match-ups over the years and the careers of some of the featured fighters: Muhammad Ali, Larry Holmes, Lennox Lewis and Tim Witherspoon, who was denied a showdown with ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson by promoter Don King, right up to the much anticipated Floyd Mayweather/Manny Pacquaio bout – the biggest fight in history not to happen.

The Greatest Fights That Never Were will appeal to anybody who enjoys pondering the ‘what if….’ It’s not just a book for boxing fans.

Born in 1977, Matthew Bazell is a London-based journalist and author (Invasion and Deportation [2000], Theatre of
Silence: The Lost Soul of Football [2008]. A lifelong follower of Arsenal, his second team are the mighty Darlington! A keen boxing historian and general sports enthusiast, Matthew has also appeared on ESPN and various sports programmes as commentator.

World's Best Cities

Annie Fitzsimmons

Giving a nod to the Century of the City, The World’s Best Cities – the next in National Geographic’s best-selling large-format gift book collection – celebrates the terroir of more than 300 of the world’s great and upcoming cities with a playful panoply of lavish photo galleries and insightful text, including must-do walks, local secrets, oddities,
and more.

Delving into the heart and soul of more than 300 cities worldwide, this National Geographic travel volume is a glossy, glorious tribute to cosmopolitan life. A stately, luscious celebration of photos and words, it showcases all of the world’s great cities – Paris, Rome, New York, London – and up-coming ones as well – including Denver, Asheville, Auckland (New Zealand) and Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) – through a playful, informative mix of inspirational personal narratives; walking tours; thematic photo galleries; plus sidebars on oddities; shopping cart; novel introductions (novels that offer a sense of the city); local secrets; and more.

Additional cities are treated with illustrated lists, such as the world’s best fashion cities; foodie cities; and garden cities. The twenty-first century is the Century of the City, and for on-the-go travellers and armchair travellers alike The World’s Best Cities is a must-have for all urban adventurers.

Annie Fitzsimmons is National Geographic’s Intelligent Travel’s Urban Insider, avidly followed as the cosmopolitan culture connection. From great places to stay and one-of-a-kind things to do in her home base, New York City, to tips from locals in-the-know in cities around the world, Annie is trusted get urban travelers up to speed.

National Geographic: The Covers

Mark Collins Jenkins

This follow-up to the bestselling National Geographic 125 Years is is the illustrated history of National Geographic’s iconic, beloved, and ground-breaking covers, bringing together for the first time more than a century of images that have transformed our understanding of the world.

National Geographic: The Covers is the definitive cover collection from the world’s most beloved magazine. In the more than 125 years that the magazine has been publishing its famous yellow border, its cover stories have opened our eyes to a richly varied world and taken us to places we only dream of visiting: deep into the rainforest, miles below the surface of the ocean, and into the farthest reaches of the universe.

Organised by decade, the covers chart our evolving understanding of the world, the unfolding of world political events, record amazing discoveries that would literally rewrite history, and the enduring beauty of our natural world.
Captured by some of the most gifted and innovative photographers, these covers tell a fascinating story of the last 125 years, one in which we’ve seen air power advance from the Wright Brothers to the Space Age; Undersea exploration evolve from awkward submersibles to sleek subs that can seemingly effortlessly cruise to the ocean’s deepest trench, our natural world evolve from a vast territory of exploitable resources to one needing our understanding and protection.

National Geographic: The Covers provides a stirring portrait of a changing world, revealing the captivating stories behind unforgettable images; from the piercing green eyes of the Afghan girl to the haunted, hunted gorillas of the Congo’s Virunga Crater. Featuring hundreds of iconic and beloved cover images, National Geographic: The Covers is a stunning celebration of the magazine and its enduring influence on our world.

Mark Collins Jenkins is the author of many books, including the bestselling National Geographic 125 Years, Worlds to Explore: Classic Tales of Travel and Adventure From National Geographic, Vampire Forensics, and The
War of 1812 and the Rise of the U.S. Navy.